Mine detail: Fiskenaesset Area

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Location: Vestgronland County, Greenland, Denmark, North America
Lat / long: 63.10002, -50.66481
dep_id: 60000525
mrds_id: ISM0049
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Vanadium, Chromium, Titanium
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: MAGMATIC, STRATIFORM, MASSIVE, DISRUPTED
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Prospect
Structure: METAMORPHOSED, DISRUPTED, LAYERED COMPLEX
dy_ba: >
disc_yr: 1952
References:
  • Deposit:: GHISLER, M., 1976, THE GEOLOGY, MINEROLOGY, AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PRE-OROGENIC ARCHEAN STRATIFORM CHROMITE DEPOSITS AT FISKENAESSET, WEST GREENLAND: BERLIN, GEBRUDER BORNTRAEGER, MONOGRAPH SERIES ON MINERAL DEPOSITS 14, 156 P. (C17, C18, PA8, RR33, RR40)
  • Deposit:: GHISLER, M., AND WINDLEY, B. F., 1967, THE CHROMITE DEPOSITS OF THE FISKENAESSET REGION, WEST GREENLAND: COPENHAGEN ?DENMARK?, GREENLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORT 12, 39 P.
  • Deposit:: WINDLEY, B. F., 1973, THE FISKENAESSET COMPLEX, WEST GREENLAND, PART I--A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE STRATIGRAPHY, PETROLOGY, AND WHOLE ROCK CHEMISTRY FROM QEQERTARSSUATSIAQ: COPENHAGEN ?DENMARK?, GREENLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 106, 80 P.
  • Deposit:: THAYER, T. P., 1973, CHROMIUM, IN BROBST, D. A., AND PRATT, W. P., EDS., UNITED STATES MINERAL RESOURCES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 820, P. 111-121. (RR33, RR40, REP4)
  • Deposit:: THAYER, T. P., AND PAGE, N. J, 1976, A PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OF CHROMIUM AND PLATINUM RESOURCES IN THE FISKENAESSET ANORTHOSITE COMPLEX, SOUTHWESTERN GREENLAND: RESTON, VIRGINIA, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INTERNAL REPORT, 25 P.
  • Reserve-Resource:: DeYoung, J.H., Jr., Lee, M.P., and Lipin, B.R., 1984, International Strategic Minerals Inventory summary report - chromium: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 930-B, 41 p.
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